Volume 1 Qianlong Tengyuan 0081 Lanling First Cut
More than fifty years ago, it was just as the last feudal dynasty, the Dali Dynasty, was about to fall.
Smoke erupted, wars broke out frequently, and the rebel army soldiers pointed directly at the imperial capital Xiayang.
The last emperor, Emperor Yong'an, was incompetent and issued the most absurd military order in history for the throne of the emperor, ordering the major border armies to immediately lead the army back to King Qin.
There are seven states in the north of Great Xia, and only the three border states of Qingzhou, Youzhou and Yunzhou are bordered by the grassland.
The border army was transferred by Emperor Yong'an, causing the entire northern border to fall into an unprecedented emptiness.
The wolf clan naturally would not miss this opportunity, and 100,000 wolves rode into no man's land, and the local garrison was powerless to resist.
In just half a month, the wolf clan has captured most of the three border states.
If not, Lanling Mansion has the natural defense line of the Lanling River, so that the wolf clan who is not familiar with water can only sigh.
Otherwise, the entire Lanling Mansion will also be devastated.
Liu Guixiang was originally from Youzhou, and his family was the largest cloth merchant in Youzhou.
And the Zhao family, the in-law, has inherited a century-old dyeing family.
However, there are no eggs under the nest.
No matter how old the inheritance of the wealthy family is, under the ravages of wolf horses with no humanity at all, they are just cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.
There are thousands of people in the two families, except for Liu Guixiang, who is pregnant, who was desperately pushed into the Lanling River by her husband and survived, none of them survived, and all of them were buried under the butcher's knife of the wolf clan.
Liu Guixiang, who has been good at water since she was a child, witnessed the brutal murder of her loved ones, and was so grief-stricken that she had nothing to love in her life.
There was a clear opportunity to go ashore, but she was indifferent and let the river carry her downstream.
Maybe she didn't deserve to die, but when she was confused and dying, she happened to be rescued by Jiang Weixin, who was fishing on the river.
Jiang Weixin is a widower, and his wife died in childbirth two years ago, leaving him with only a one-year-old son, Jiang Hua.
After saving Liu Guixiang, he saw that she was a pregnant woman, and after learning about her miserable experience, he gave birth to compassion.
is to ask for warmth to her, take care of her in every way, and take care of her meticulously.
Not long after, Liu Guixiang gave birth to a daughter, who was named Zhao Mei.
Under Jiang Weixin's careful care and comfort, Liu Guixiang gradually walked out of the shadow of the past.
Grateful for his life-saving grace, coupled with the fact that their orphans and widows really have nowhere to go, they simply promised to each other.
Perhaps it was because she had been in the water for too long that she had left the root of the disease, which made her completely lose her fertility.
Although Jiang Weixin said that he didn't care, Liu Guixiang always felt sorry for him.
Seeing that Jiang Hua loved his daughter Zhao Mei very much, when they grew up, they decided to kiss each other and let them become husband and wife.
This is also why Liu Guixiang is both Jiangxia's grandmother and grandmother.
The two children were already in love, and they were even more affectionate after marriage, and Zhao Mei also gave birth to six boys for Jiang Hua one after another.
Maybe it's because scarcity is expensive.
The countryside is patriarchal, but Jiang Weixin's family is an exception, and girls are particularly rare.
Therefore, when Lao Qijiangxia was born, he immediately became everyone's sweetheart.
Whether it is her grandparents, parents and six older brothers, they all use her as a little princess.
I was really afraid of falling in the palm of my hand, and I was afraid of melting in my mouth.
But having too many children means that the burden is heavy, and the family can't afford to raise so many children.
In order to support his family, Liu Guixiang, who was afraid of touching sad things and never planned to touch cloth again in his life, had to return to his old business and began to work as a tailor.
Because of her good craftsmanship and excellent clothes, she soon became a famous seamstress in ten miles and eight towns.
And her daughter Zhao Mei, under the careful teaching of Liu Guixiang, was extremely talented in dyeing and cutting, and soon got her true inheritance.
Young people are always more lively than old people, and Zhao Mei is not willing to nest in Tianmen Village where birds don't all her life.
So, after discussing with her husband Jiang Hua, they reached a consensus and left the children to be taken care of by the old couple, and they went to Qinghe County to open a mom-and-pop shop, called Jiang Ji Tailor Shop.
In those days, there were no ready-made clothes to buy, and people bought their own cloth to dress, either to make their own clothes, or to pay tailors to help make them.
The two of them also seized this golden period, and quickly gained a reputation with their exquisite craftsmanship and gained a firm foothold in Qinghe County.
But Zhao Mei is a very ambitious and far-sighted woman, and she is not satisfied with working as a tailor in a small county town.
And Lanling Mansion has become her next target.
It didn't take long for her to hand over the tailor shop to an apprentice, and the husband and wife took the money they had saved and went to Lanling Mansion to open a Jiangji cloth village.
With a shrewd mind, he soon made the cloth village prosperous.
But they still haven't stopped expanding, and they have branches in major prefectures and even capitals.
The husband and wife have been busy all day, and they have not returned to Tianmen Village for many years.
At least, Jiang Guanyu felt that he hadn't seen the two of them for about ten years.
But no matter how many branches they opened, the tailor shop in Qinghe County was where they made their fortune, and they were not willing to lose it at all.
After the apprentice in charge resigned and set up his own business, Zhao Mei begged her mother Liu Guixiang to go out of the mountain to help sit in the town.
Liu Guixiang didn't want to go, she was used to the ordinary life in Tianmen Village, and she was a lot older, and she didn't want to bother for this money anymore.
But maybe it was providence, and it didn't take long for his wife Jiang Weixin to wake up and pass away.
Maybe it was because she was afraid of touching the scene, or maybe Jiang Xia happened to be admitted to the second middle school of the county at that time, so she suddenly changed her mind and moved to Qinghe County to work as a tailor again.
Zhao Mei and his wife have already had a lot of money, but they don't actually expect this store to make money, it's just nostalgia.
Unexpectedly, Liu Guixiang is old and strong, at such an old age, his craftsmanship has not diminished at all.
Jiang Kee Tailor Shop, which was already on the verge of closure, miraculously came back to life in less than half a year after she re-emerged from the mountain.
It is said that even the prefect of Lanling Mansion once came to ask her to help his wife make clothes.
After the clothes were made, the prefect was very satisfied, praised her craftsmanship, and praised her as "the first cut in Lanling".
Liu Guixiang became famous because of this, and the name of Lanling's first cut also spread.
The people of Qinghe County are proud to be able to wear the clothes she sewed with her own hands.
Even, there are many people from other prefectures and cities who come from thousands of miles away, just asking her to help make a dress.
It's a pity that after she trained Jiangxia's third brother and daughter-in-law and put her in charge of taking care of the tailor shop, she retreated into the background again.
Teasing his grandson at home all day long, taking care of his old age, and taking care of Jiang Xia's daily life, he rarely does it anymore.
This is also the reason why Jiang Guanyu looked for a tailor before, but did not think of her.